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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pay for your son and 1 parent to pre-board.  Other family members can fill in around them.  SW has no policy against saving seats.  Many families only pay for 1 pre-boarder.[/quote]

I've done this with my husband saving seats for us or my child and I going and saving him a seat.  Some staff will let you do family board with an older child/SN.  We have done both family board and priority boarding as they offered it when we talked to them.  Now I don't take a chance and make sure to do one pay so at least two of us can sit together.  I have had people ask if seat is saved and I just say yes, done.  [/quote]

PP who initially suggested the disability preboarding.

I think it's important to understand what the issues that each of the 3 options:  disability preboarding, paid preboarding, and family preboarding, will solve to make sure you have the right one.

Disability preboarding means that he boards when the plane is empty.  He'd get to choose a seat, and sit with family, which is great, but he also wouldn't be dealing with crowded aisles and anxiety about getting settled before the plane takes off.  He'd also miss the cattle call line up.

Paid preboarding means that he's getting on the plane with a lot of other people.  He'd have a similar choice of seats, and be with family, but the other things like the pressure of more people coming, and lining up in a crowded line with strangers, would be the same.

Family boarding means boarding between A and B groups.  Much less choice of seats, but he'd still be guaranteed to be with someone.  Still boarding into a crowded airplane with crowded aisles.  It's not guaranteed though.  Generally, it's only for people with kids under 6, so the chances they'd allow it for a 14 year old are slight.  I'm not sure I see the advantage of approaching them, explaining the disability, and asking for an exception to family boarding, when you could do the same exact thing and ask for disability preboarding, which is better suited to his needs, and more likely to be accepted.  [/quote]

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